Thread by @aspiringabd

Read Qur'ān in Secret

Sayyidunā ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say:

“The one who recites the Qur’ān aloud is like the one who gives charity openly, and the one who recites the Qur’ān quietly is like the one who gives

charity secretly.”

Abū ʿĪsā (al-Tirmidhī) said: This ḥadīth is ḥasan gharīb.

The meaning of this ḥadīth is that the one who recites the Qur’ān quietly is better than the one who recites it aloud, because giving charity secretly is better according to the people of knowledge

than giving it openly.

And the meaning of this, according to the people of knowledge, is so that a person may be safe from self-admiration (ʿujb). For the one who keeps his deed secret is not in danger of ʿujb (self-admiration), unlike the one who does it openly.

Tirmidhī 2919

عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " الْجَاهِرُ بِالْقُرْآنِ كَالْجَاهِرِ بِالصَّدَقَةِ وَالْمُسِرُّ بِالْقُرْآنِ كَالْمُسِرِّ بِالصَّدَقَةِ "

. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ .

وَمَعْنَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ أَنَّ الَّذِي يُسِرُّ بِقِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الَّذِي يَجْهَرُ بِقِرَاءَةِ الْقُرْآنِ لأَنَّ صَدَقَةَ السِّرِّ أَفْضَلُ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ صَدَقَةِ الْعَلاَنِيَةِ وَإِنَّمَا مَعْنَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ لِكَىْ يَأْمَنَ

الرَّجُلُ مِنَ الْعُجُبِ لأَنَّ الَّذِي يُسِرُّ الْعَمَلَ لاَ يُخَافُ عَلَيْهِ الْعُجْبُ مَا يُخَافُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عَلاَنِيَتِهِ